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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid who was a NMS, had 35 ACT, countless APs and extremely high GPA, three sport athlete and involved in leadership activities got rejected by almost every Ivy League (she didn’t apply to one - rejected by the rest).

Very jaded here. [/quote]

seriously you kid doesn't stand out, you tried to play the AP game and you lost. There is a new game in town and it's called being unique.

There are a ton of successful Ivy grads that had low SAT/ACT test scores. Good grades does not = success at that level.

National awards, leading movement, being the top 1% of a sport/art, having rich/influential parents... those are things that point to success... not being a good little girl/boy[/quote]

Harsh but true. One of my (wealthy white) children had perfect stats when applying. Took the SAT one time and got a perfect score, took an extremely rigorous course load, great ECs, etc. I told her she should assume she had no chance at the tippy top schools because she was indistinguishable on paper from thousands of similarly situated kids around the country.  She applied to a few and was shut out. Neither of us felt “jaded” because we were aware of the realities around admissions, and it’s really not any kind of a tragedy  for kids like this, who will be successful wherever they go. [/quote]

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